Information-philosopher Luciano Floridi once coined the neologism OnLife to characterise our current way of life in what he calls a hyperconnected reality. In his attempts to understand the impact exercised by ICTs he stresses the importance of concepts, since concepts mediate our understanding of the realities surrounding us. When reality changes dramatically as it is happening nowadays, 'we are conceptually wrong-footed' and we need to update our conceptual framework.~1 This is exactly where the book Recordkeeping Informatics brings us. In the world of 'nanosecond archiving', 'cascading inscriptions', 'cyber-physicality', 'Internet of Things', and 'cloud-computing', motion is the only constant. These are some of the keywords the authors Upward, Reed, Oliver and Evans use to characterise today's information world. This ever-moving data world dominated by ICTs leads to many legal, ethical and political challenges and dilemmas which are investigated and discussed on many platforms. A generic question which is behind almost all of these issues is how authoritative and evidential information can be secured in this chaotic networked information age. There comes in recordkeeping.
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